Tagged: half-square triangles
Sunday sketch #488
One of the quilts I’m making at the moment combines traditional quilt blocks (nine patches and rail-fence sashing blocks) with circles. It’s a funny mix of old and new, prints and solids… it’s a way to use up fabric from my stash while trying out a new design approach. At the same time, it’s been prompting me to add new or unexpected shapes into designs that were otherwise languishing. This week’s sketch is an example.
Sunday sketch #483
Like Sunday sketches #481 and #482, this week’s sketch is a block-based design featuring one main motif: a two-layer economy block surrounded on all four sides by a small square on point. The small squares are shared between adjacent blocks, and there’s potential to change things up through colour placement and by adding different shapes in spaces between blocks.
Sunday sketch #482
It’s not too hard to see the common element in this week’s and last week’s sketches: that dark double-layer economy block with smaller angled squares on its top, bottom and sides. Now there are just more of them!
